The invisible threat: How browser extensions can spy on you
A deep dive into the risks of installing browser extensions and how attackers exploit them to steal your data.
Track planes with your Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Motivation I remember the first time I tested Flightradar24 on my iPad. I had a lot of fun watching a plane approach over my own house and, then walk out to see..and there it was... The cool thing is that this plane transmits a lot of open data that
Security podcasts tips
Motivation To keep up with the security information flow, I am following a bunch of great bloggers, I read up on security issues using twitter where I follow great security people/researchers. I use feedly to get a message when a blog I follow has a new post. I try
Which third party services have you granted access to your Twitter account?
Motivation Can't remember all third party applications you have granted access to Twitter? Me neither! It might be wise to remove the ones you do not use anymore, just to be more secure. Each week I listen to security expert Graham Cluleys great podcast Smashing Security. In this
LAN Turtle factory reset
Intro If you read this blogpost I guess you have a LAN Turtle and it seems like you cannot use a secure shell to connect to it anymore? This happened to me. Hak5 has a great step by step howto on how to unbrick and factory reset the LAN Turtle.
Automated TLS scan and display results with grades
Motivation Do you know how many TLS certificates you have? When they expire? Are your server configured the best way possible? Wouldn't it be great if you had a list with this information on it? A list which updates every night with the latest results from an upgraded
Reset Wifi Pineapple Tetra and set it up with mac osx
Motivation I needed to get the pineapple to work with my mac, and I needed to get the internet sharing to work. I got a lot of really good documentation from Hak5s "WiFi Pineapple Generation 6 User Manual", but there are no good examples on how to set
Facebook username and password phishing using Target="_blank" vulnerability
This vulnerability has been blogged about by several other excellent bloggers, but I would like you to see how potentially dangerous this vulnerability is with a demo video. A lot of pages has this problem and I guess this vulnerability will be around for quite some time. I do not
Reset Wifi Pineapple Mark V and set it up with mac osx
How to Reset Wifi Pineapple Mark V Do you have a Mac and are having trouble with the internet sharing on your wifi pineapple? Or maybe the pineapple doesn't work as before and you need to restore to factory settings? I was having trouble to connect to the
Secure your kids from Internet ugliness - part 2
Motivation First of all I would like to say that I really like the open and free internet and I do not enjoy mass surveillance and big brother censorship. When that's said I really think internet contains ugliness I would like to filter out. In this blog post
Metadata in pictures embedded(!) in docx files
Motivation This blog post startet naturally after finishing a previous blog post on Are you leaking metadata? Here's a simple example to make your own tool to check!. When you make a word document, I guess you often use images you have taken with your smart phone og
How I protected my kids on the internet using OpenDNS and parent control
Motivation As a parent, are you worried about the content your children can be exposed to on the internet now a days? In my honest opinion there's more to worry about than sexual content, there is also child grooming proven on a lot of different sites, disturbing scenes